Homeschooling!

i homeschooled my 2 oldest until they got old enough for middle school. they were fine socialy the only prob was they were further along than the other kids . i am going to do the same with my new babe too. i am home anyway and do not work out of the home so no money is lost that way.

Actually, if you add up the costs of Book Fees, Registration Fees, Field Trips, parties, lunch money or lunched everyday, gym clothes, school clothes and all the other EXTRA's that pop up in a 9 month school year, homeschooling is probably CHEAPER then regular schools. Also, being a one income family, puts that family in a lower tax bracket then a 2 income family. So the amount of money someone might make for working during school hours, probably doesn't even out to making more in the end. I have taken a couple of Personal Finance classes and there is evidence that being a 2 income family doesn't always equal to MORE income.

I home school my children and I work outside of the home at east 27 hours per week. I also sell on Ebay and do this along with some survey sites, so the income is not an issue as you can do both. Socialization is not an issue either as my children play with neighbor hood children every day after school. My oldest child works two part time jobs and does school plus spends time with her friends. My youngest probably has a list of 50 or more friends. We also have a home school group that we have spent time with and they have a few friends through there. People seem to think that home school children never go out of the house and that is no where near the truth. We go to the library at least once a week, we go on field trips, etc. We have fun but we learn and we can incorporate a lesson into almost whatever we are doing. Going grocery shopping can be a field trip if we learn enough. Parents all home school at some point in their lives- you teach your child to walk,talk,ride a bike, etc. We just take their learning a little farther!

That's what I've been doing... Getting tons of books from the library to use. It's working well for us. My dd hates textbooks so this route is a lot better for us. Playdates are also wonderful as we have tons of them. It seems we're only home 2 days a week. The rest of the time we go somewhere at least for a few hourse each day. If we didn't do that we'd get bad cabin fever. Brenda Marie Homeschool 4 Us (My homeschool blog): http://homeschool4us.blogspot.com/ My ebook: "Homeschooling Without The Headaches" http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=812683

I'm not sure where all these misconceptions are coming from but they're irritating. I would think that a lot more people would be better educated about this today. I'm not sure why they're not. Brenda Marie Homeschool 4 Us (My homeschool blog): http://homeschool4us.blogspot.com/ My ebook: "Homeschooling Without The Headaches" http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=812683